New Tricks - Blue Flower

New Tricks - Series 9, Episode 08 - Blue Flower

Episode Synopsis

Episode 08 - Blue FlowerUCOS investigate the murder of Max Klein (Edward Baker-Duly), an East German immigrant found bleeding to death near a block of communal garages in 2007 and repeating a mysterious phrase 'blue flower'. At the time of his death Max worked in a nearby recycling facility, but the team learn that before Max came to the UK he worked for the German Government as a 'puzzler', piecing together thousands of shredded Stasi documents.

A friend of Max's, Grace Cusack (Elizabeth Berrington), tells the team that Max came to London looking for his long-lost daughter Mia (Kate Bracken) whom Max and his wife Alicia (Aislinn Sands) smuggled out of East Germany as a baby. Having lost a child herself in a hit-and-run, Grace formed a bond with Max in the months before he died and seems to be the only person who knew anything about him. However when the team discover reports proving that Max had at one time been a Stasi officer, they are left unsure what to think of him.

When the team eventually track Mia down they find an angry young woman who believes that Max was directly responsible for her mother's death in a Stasi cell. However, Pullman (Amanda Redman) is convinced there's more to the story.

Previous Episode Synopsis

Episode 08 - Blue FlowerUCOS investigate the murder of an East German immigrant found bleeding to death near a block of communal garages in 2007 and repeating a mysterious phrase. CAST: Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman, Alun Armstrong, Denis Lawson